I guess my ethical and moral standards are a bit higher than yours. Managers with Jobs “win by any means necessary” attitude are a big part of the reason that our latest economic problems have happened.
ok where are the other tablet companies products?
there was that image of an indian company with a tablet.
There was windows with the touch surface table.
I could not disagree with you more vehemently.
I don't see that statement as being any more valid than the proposition that guns kill people. Our economic problems stem from increasing government instrusion, regulation and taxation, not managers who push their people too hard and accumulate huge sums of money.
Last I heard, Apple Computer had $40 billion in cash reserves. Yes, that is huge. But if you consider what a tough economy, changes in techonology, unexpected market forces and skyrocketing energy costs can do to a company, it is a smart move to have that cash, especially given what we see happening in the next three years to the economy. It is going to get worse, much worse.
Apple Computer (and Steve Jobs by extension) show what can be great about this country by designing and marketing products that create jobs and opportunities across the spectrum, from employees at the Apple Store to entrepreneurs who write little applications for the iPhone and sell them for a buck apiece.
While I would like to see their products manufactured in the USA, our government, through a variety of mechanisms, does not make it a viable proposition to do that. And that must change.
You may not like Apple products or Steve Jobs himself, and you aren't alone. That's your business. But many people don't feel the way you do, and that is their business.
Steve Jobs may indeed be an asshole, as you say. I don't know, never met him. It would be great if our Captains of Industry were virtuous, but I would rather have an asshole who provides jobs and products that people are willing to buy, than someone who is a saint but runs the business into the ground or produces products that don't sell.
I want capitalists running business who can produce products, provide jobs, and contribute to our national wealth.
When I went to get my knee operated on, I knew the physician who did it, and he was a jerk who treated the techs like crap, and was occasionally rude to his patients.
But he also had the best outcomes. I didn't care if he declined to hold my hand after the operation. But I am walking around on the same knee today with no problems.
I guess my ethical and moral standards are a bit higher than yours.
There are no ethical or moral standards where I need to stick my nose into other people's business where it doesn't directly relate to me and where society has no need either in preserving the overall well-being of society, legally or morally.
I see way too many people sticking their noses into everyone else's business where it's simply a matter of one person not liking how another handles himself. And then we have the liberalists and socialist, where they figure that "your business is their business" ... LOL...
Sorry, I'm not getting into the liberal, leftists viewpoint of "your business is my business."
I figure you stay out of my business and I stay out of your business.
There are times when we have some important societal matters to deal with and we do so, as a society (naturally and rightfully so), but if you're an SOB, that's your business... go ahead and be one for all I care... LOL ...
If you break some laws and you get prosecuted, that's one thing, but if you're a jerk, no one can stand to be around you, everyone hates you, you are considered to be the worst person who has ever existed in the human race as far as getting along with people -- I simply don't care and don't want to be bothered!... :-)